The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service helps private landowners conserve our natural resources, and air resources are among those. Our Air Quality resource concerns can be broadly classified into four air quality and atmospheric change issues:...
how to reduce your carbon footprint Reduce What You Can, Offset What You Can’t.™ That’s our motto, and we’re proud of it. Everyone has a responsibility to reduce their individual carbon footprint, and there are lots of ways to do so. We encourage everyone to think...
There are three primary methods for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: employing energy efficiency and conservation practices; using carbon-free or reduced-carbon energy resources; and capturing and storing carbon either from fossil fuels or from...
BACKGROUND Earth’s soil has formed by processes that have maintained a persistent and expansive global soil mantle, one that in turn provided the stage for the evolution of the vast diversity of life on land. The underlying stability of soil systems is controlled by...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today said a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant has helped initiate a partnership that is improving the environment, creating a market for carbon credits generated on working grasslands. Chevrolet, a...
Managing soils for multiple economic, societal In view of the growing world population, within two decades global demand for food is projected to increase by 50 per cent, demand for water by 35-60 per cent, and demand for energy by 45 per cent. The world’s soils are...
Authors Emma C. Suddick, UC Davis, Woods Hole Research Center Moffatt K. Ngugi, UC Davis, USAID USDA-FAS Keith Paustian, Colorado State University Johan Six, UC Davis, ETH Zurich Publication Information California Agriculture 67(3):162-171. DOI:...
Dear C-AGG Participants and Stakeholders – FAO and France urge including agriculture in global climate change debate MORE TARGETED POLICIES AND INVESTMENTS NEEDED TO ADAPT AGRICULTURE TO THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE FAo Director-General José Graziano da Silva...
Impending risks associated with climate change have forced the global community to devise tradable pollution permit or “cap and trade” approaches to control the release of greenhouse gases. In the U.S, soils have the potential to offset about 10 percent of annual CO2...
